Reading about neuroplasticity and how psychedelic therapy triggers "critical periods" for re-wiring. Makes me think about that beginning phase of a relationship, a job, or a move. New circumstances let you create new patterns and behaviors, a whole new "operating mode"

If there is going to be a solution, and a profitable company, around solving loneliness … it’s going to be related to housing People want to live near friends. An apartment rented with even 1 friend increases in the building has a 30% greater chance of renewing their lease

Obsessed with the idea that a coffee shop's value capture needs to expand: it's not the $5 cappuccino, it's the .5% bump in property value it adds to every home within walking distance. Why aren't more real estate co's subsidizing street traffic businesses?

Amazing how much you can feel the absence ✨nice little reminder that brand is a combination of everything we do and *don’t* experience from a company/organization

Today I learned that LLMs produce worse responses in December versus May because they "seem to have internalized the concept of winter break"

Cities should be begging their residents to plant trees, but instead just dozens of unmonitored Google forms

i want to subscribe to my local coffee shop more than any new app right now

Consumer products can both hit a job to be done and *also* call to the highest parts in all of us. Utility plus inspiration is the long-sighted play.

Architect Bjarke Ingels on the contrasts inherent to the best work: "It's taking a very strong force...necessity, utility, and giving it poetry, and possibility"

2 years of group coaching changed my life in a way 12+ years of talk therapy didn't bc (1) I got real and direct feedback (2) I was held accountable. Therapists offer great support but they're incentivized to make you feel good and keep coming back

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." — Pablo Picasso